Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

donuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What I’ve learned from this whole fiasco after owning a problem-free 4090 for over 2 years:

  1. Don’t use 3rd party connectors, and don’t use the squid adapter in the box. Use the 12VHPR cable that came with your PSU or GPU. If your PSU doesn’t have a 12VHPR connection, get one that does.
  2. Don’t bend the cable near the connection. Make sure your case is actually big enough to avoid bending.
  3. Make sure it’s actually plugged in all the way. If you didn’t hear a click, it’s not plugged in all the way.
  4. Don’t keep disconnecting the cable to check for burns. The connection is weak and designed to fail after only a handful of disconnect/reconnects. If you followed the 3 steps above perfectly, you have nothing to worry about.

  That said, I’m skipping this GPU generation (and most likely the next one as well). Hopefully in 2-4 years AMD or Intel will be on more level grounds with nVidia so that I can finally stop giving them money just to have good ray tracing performance.

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Strolls nervously through room with RX 580…

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I got lucky and picked up a 7900 XTX for a reasonable price last gen and it’s been a really great card. I’ve got a couple systems coming up on needing a refresh (1080 Ti and a 2080 Ti) and I’m planning on upgrading both of them to a 9070 XT. I’m staying away from Nvidia until they start pricing their GPUs at prices actual consumers can afford instead of corporations looking to build AI farms.

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Use the 12VHPR cable that came with your PSU

    Except those are burning too.

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• terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s bad, but that aside - It might be time to consider alternate power delivery to these cards. The power they need should warrant having a standard c13 plug directly on em or something.

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  • RxBrad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    c13 plug

    Who would’ve thought… 3DFX was apparently ahead of its time…

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Is this the fabled Bitchin’ Fast 3d?

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A mini fusion drive, perhaps?

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Power the house with it when not using the PC, but expect brown outs when gaming.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Four of the standard 8 pin PCIe power connectors would work well.
    The new connector really should have used some large blade contacts to handle 50 amps.

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• InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So, when is the first party cable going to be launched?

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• TunaLobster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  youtu.be/Ndmoi1s0ZaY?si=SWRjC4AgseXSmOrm

  youtu.be/kb5YzMoVQyw?si=eSGnUbFv6OJ4jtEg

  It’s poor design on Nvidias part. There is no load balancing.

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